Professor Beth Chung is Recognized with the 2024 Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributor
Organizational behavior and leadership expert, Beth Chung, was honored with the 2024 Alumni Award for Outstanding Faculty Contribution to the Univesity from the Fowler College of Business. Chung was given the award based on her research, teaching and service during this year’s All-University Convocation on August 22.
The Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributor, one of SDSU’s most prestigious faculty awards, is presented annually to one faculty member from each of the university’s seven academic colleges.
A recognized scholar in the fields of inclusiveness, diversity and leadership, Chung has been a professor of management at SDSU for 24 years and currently serves as chair of Fowler’s management department. She has a strong research record with 36 published articles in high-quality academic journals and she is the co-founder and current director for the Institute on Inclusiveness and Diversity in Organizations (IIDO). In addition, she was the recipient of SDSU’s Diversity Excellence Award in 2023 and Fowler’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2022.
Chung was nominated for the award because of her “consistency, rigor, and excellence in her teaching,” “extensive professional development record,” and dedicating “her life’s work to making her department, her college, her university and society a better place by doing meaningful work in diversity/inclusion and leadership in all aspects of her professional life.”
“Beth Chung has made numerous and impactful contributions to the study of organizations and her work has been inspirational to her students,” said Dan Moshavi, Thomas and Evelyn Page Dean of the Fowler College of Business. “She has also served as an outstanding leader in both the college and the university as a department chair, committee member, advocate and mentor to newer faculty members.”
Chung earned her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland and previously taught at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration.
A video outlining Chung’s accomplishments can be seen here.
